boost power supplies to the area and support mineral processing at the site. Engineer Musa Nashuni said the first step would be to investigate producing insulators for the electrification works, and after that the government would look into establishing plant to generate power for irrigation, water generation and local industries. Water supply project The water supply project was intended to deliver 65,000 cubic metres of potable water to Katsina metropolis daily. In January 2003, the water treatment plant 2.5 km from the reservoir was half completed but had been abandoned. Booster stations and water tanks were in various stages of completion along the route to the city. The only pipe that had been laid of 111 kilometers required was the 2.1 kilometer stretch from the reservoir to the treatment plant. The water supply project needed N13 billion to be completed. President Olusegun Obasanjo approved the funding, and the next month paid a visit to the dam. In August 2003 governor Umaru Musa Yar'Adua said the state government had allocated N317 million in funding for a 16-kilometer supply of water from Zobe Dam to Dutsing town, due to be completed in September that year. He also warned of increased water tariffs in the state, since current rates were not enough to cover costs. In December 2004, Katsina Central Senator Umaru Tsauri said that the federal government had allocated N1 billion for completion of the project. In November 2009 the state Commissioner for Water Resources said the Zobe Water work was almost 80% complete. He said the project when completed would supply about 80 million litres of treated water per day. In December 2009 the Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili, discussed revised estimates for the Zobe Water Supply project. She said council had approved the revised consultancy fee from N123 million to N299 million. In March 2010 the Katsina State Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Nasiru Danmusa, said Zobe Dam and others would soon be completed in due course. That month the Federal government set up a Projects Assessment Committee to probe incomplete projects where the contractors had received large payments but the work was incomplete, including the Zobe dam project. References Dams in Nigeria Katsina State Earth-filled dams Dams completed in 1983